Very roughly speaking, these people hold that the laws of nature (be it the basic laws of physics or the inner working of our brains) do not leave any room for anything that could be righteously called „freedom“.

Now, being a scientist myself, I kinda felt the need to answer back. After all, free will is quite an important question, but it’s also notoriously muddy. Therefore, I chose to just focus on the 2012 arxiv-article on „The Free Will Function“ by above mentioned Sabine Hossenfelder. In her paper, Mrs Hossenfelder gives some reasoning as to why the basic laws of physics would preclude freedom from being possible in the physical world; and that is (since there is nothing but a physical world) possible at all.Weiterlesen →